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Olivia

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A girl falls in love with her finishing school headmistress, who feels the same but tries to suppress her desires.

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Drew Gregory Autostraddle Olivia is one of the best lesbian films of all time. Sep 10, 2021 Full Review Robert Abele Los Angeles Times It brings to rich emotional life the swirl of influence and passion inside an all-girls boarding school buzzing with sentimental education around its grand central staircase. Aug 29, 2019 Full Review John DeFore Hollywood Reporter Feuillere holds the screen in all kinds of ways, conveying the psychology of a woman who understands the effect she has on impressionable girls and wants to wield it for their betterment. Aug 15, 2019 Full Review Amelie Lasker FF2 Media Olivia is a particularly beautiful watch. Within lavish costumes, bedrooms, and ballrooms, the story is surprisingly intimate. Dec 28, 2020 Full Review Lauren Humphries-Brooks Citizen Dame It's a study in female relationships, their complexity, and the centralizing of female desire, couched in the form of a complex gothic melodrama that prizes women above all else. Jun 4, 2020 Full Review Nathanael Hood Unseen Films Audry's approach [in this film] was primarily mannered-nearly suffocatingly so-occasionally bordering on the naturalistic. Rated: 6/10 Jun 3, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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tiny m This is the best movie of all time!! Edwige Feuillère is my favourite actress and I love how she plays Mlle. Julie, her feelings and desires. I can't watch anything else since I watched this film for the first time cause for me there's nothing that even nearly compares to it. Absolute masterpiece !!! <3 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review s r Studying the complexities of female relationships in a girl's school. A nice piece of French culture and drama. It was well made. It has since been embraced by lesbian movement in its depictions of women and male patriarchy. Saw it on TCM. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It's an age-old story of a student with a terrible crush on her teacher. Only this student is Olivia at an aristocratic female boarding school in France in the 19th Century and the headmistress is elegant, elusive, and ambivalent in returning Olivia's affection. Shot in luminescent black and white and suffused with female energy, insecurities, affections, affectations, and brilliance, it includes a lovely Christmas scene where ladies dressed as gentlemen dance with ladies. Johnny C. sez check out this daring movie for its time. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review juliette c i loved the beautiful costumes, setting, and cinematography, as well as the subject matter and performances. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/24/19 Full Review Audience Member Z Bm Until a. C. R. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/21/19 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A girl falls in love with her finishing school headmistress, who feels the same but tries to suppress her desires.
Director
Jacqueline Audry
Producer
Jacqueline Audry, Jean Paris
Screenwriter
Pierre Laroche
Genre
Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language
Canadian French
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Aug 16, 2019
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 2, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$7.3K
Runtime
1h 36m
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